The venerable Earl Nelson, who suffers under extreme deafness, was
last week knocked down by a carriege whilst crossing one of the streets of
As Mr. Bengougb, of Marden, in Herefordshire, was returning with Mrs. Idengough, on Thursday week, in a gig, from Abergavenny fair, he met with a serious accident between Penisaplwydd toll-gate and Momnouth Cap. It was quite dark when the gig arrived at a part of the road that runs close by the river Munnow, to which it forms a collateral ridge, at an elevation from twenty to thirty feet ; the road here is quite open to the river, having no railing or any other barrier the horse missed the direct road, slipped over the edge of the bank, and all were precipitated into the river ! Mr. Bengough had his thiele broken, and was severely cut in several places ; his wife, though touch bmised, escaped without any serious injury; happily the stream was shallow, owing to the late dryness of the weather, otherwise she and her bushand must have been drowned. The horse was killed on the spot --.,liercfbrd Times.
A labourer of Fordington, was driving some pigs into that village, en Wednesday week, when, in endeavouring to turn them into the road eita a pick which he held with the points towards him, lie fell with Ins whole weight on the pick, and it passed through his body. The poor man lingered till the following evening, when he expired.—Doreef amulets.
On the night of Sunday week, a gun heavily loaded with slugs, was fired at the window of the bedroom of Mr. Richard Wakefield, an aged farmer, and tenant to the Duke of Grafton, residing at Poteote, a loon- let of Cold Higham, in Northamptonshire. The conteeta of the gun shoo-red every pane to atoms, besides striking the garret-window above, from the direction the slugs took across the room, would have cut Mr. Wakefield's body in two, had he uot fortunately been lying too low to he reached by them. A labourer, who was supposed to have bar- Loured core:alembic animosity !eeriest Mr. Wakefield, has been appre- hended. Mr. Wakefield is overseer of Cold Higham.—Northeireton Herca Between five arid six o'clock on Monday morning, a lad of reapect- able appearance, about sixteen years old, was discovered suffocated on a buck-kiln, Lear Old Ford. The poor fellow, who is not known to any of the workmen, must, it appears, have sat against the kiln, and aceilentally fallen asleep.
'rue premises of Messrs.Ferris and Co., chemists, of Union Street, Bristol, were destroyed by fire on Saturday night. The mischief hap. pened by the bursting of a carboy of vitriol, and the damage is esti- mated at 41:XXV.
Several ricks of corn belonging to a farmer in the parish of Alver- discott, in Devonshire, were set on fire the week before last, by his servant-girl; who bus confessed her crime, and declared that she bore no ill-will to her master.
On Moaday week, a range of farm-buildings at Shettisbury, in Dor- setshire, was consumed by a fire, the work of an incendiary.
On Thursday week, an inquest was held at the Red Lion, Warstone Lane, near Birmingleun, on the body-of William Mitchell, who came by his death on the previous Tuesday, when engaged in a pugilistic en- counter with a man named Marsh. The Jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Marsh ; and he was committed to take his trial at the next Assizes. The deceased, when in liquor, was of a very violent temper ; and he appears on this occasion to have been the sole cause of the quarrel. Marsh is a married man, having a family of a wife and eight children.—Binningham Journal. John Hutchinson, of the Scotch Fusileer Guards, was tried by a Court-martial at Windsor, on Thursday week, for deserting, and steal- alga pair of regimental boots. The prisoner at first refused to plead; urging that the trial should be postponed, as he had not had sufficient notice, and that a material witness, the Sergeant to whom he had deli- vered himself up, was not present. The Court overruled his objec- tions: and at length he pleaded "not guilty." It appeared on the trial, that although twenty-five days had elapsed since the prisoner first absented himself, till he was brought back to the battalion at Windsor, yet he had delivered himself up at Knighsbridge Barracks six days previous; so that the term of absence necessary to make the offence amount to desertion, had not been fulfilled. The boots also, which he seas charged with stealing, were the same that he had on when he surrendered himself; and all his other accoutrements had been sent by 'o the Barracks. The sentence' of the Court was delivered last Thursday: it condemns the prisoner to six 'months' eenfinement and hard labour, in any goal his Colonel may select. Colonel Bowater (the Colonel of Scots' Fusileers) seems to have acted with sr ml harshness and Precipitancy in bringing. Hutchinson to so early a trial.
Atrial of the efficacy of the bloodhound to detect sheep-stetlers, 8re., nas lately taken place in the neighbourhood of Buckingham. A dog of that Weed, belonging to Mr. Mowers of Beachampton, was put on the Reef of a man carrying a sheep's head and a small bh (der of blood,
from which he now an 1 teen let fall a drop or tvo ; the dog, true to Li f breed, followed the track of the man, however devious, and in several trials each time succeeded in finding his object. In one trial, the pur- suit of the dog was so rapid as to compel the man to throw down the sheep's head and betake himself to a tree for refuge. Another trial of Mr. Flowers's bloodhound took place, which gave complete satisfaction as to the utility of the animal in the discovery of sheep-stealers. —Bucks Gazette.
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